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ROANOKE, Va. (WSET) — A hit-and-run crash on I-81 in Roanoke Tuesday morning left a VDOT contractor dead.
The incident, involving a tractor-trailer, left traffic backed up on I-81 North at mile marker 142.6 around 2:40 a.m.
Virginia State Police say Matthew C. Frazier, 54, of Clifton Forge, was exiting a piece of construction equipment that was being loaded on a lowboy trailer when he was struck by the semi-truck.
Troopers are working to identify the tractor-trailer from videos obtained from the scene.
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